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SEO is search engine optimization, altering a web site so as to improve its ranking in search engines.

SEO is search engine optimization, altering a web site so as to improve its ranking in search engines.

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Nginx with SSL connection error

I'm trying to migrate a site from HTTP to HTTPS, however, my nginx (version: 1.10.3) config seems not to be working. The following behavior is desired: http://www.example.com/path/to/content should redirect to…
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Nginx How remove jsession id from URL

I'm using nginx with wildfly behind. Nginx i'm using as reverse proxy and add Expires Header When i access my static files in my browser the Expires Header is present, but when i run the SEO test on https://www.webpagetest.org, by example, the url…
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Redirect absolute URL Server 2012 IIS

We are moving to a new domain and need to redirect users from the original to the new domain. One of the things I need to do is have it set up so if a user has a saved link such as www.domain.com/questions it redirects to…
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old URLs to new URLs using nginx

I need to: replace old SEO unfriendly URLs with new SEO friendly URLs e.g. replace http://../products/?type=genre.main.key&key=DAN&title=Dance&page=1 with http://../genres/dance?key=DAN&pg=1 and…
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IIS 6 permanent redirect to deal with a google indexing issue

My company changed domain names about an year ago. When searching for the company name, Google still displays the old url (for the purpose of this post, oldsite.com) I have used IIS 6 to set up a permanent redirect to newsite.com at that address,…
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Google index troubles

I have set up this simple blog, which is about travel from a girl's point of view. The site is based on a Wordpress template and the content is pretty straighforward. When the site was launched on the 1/09 , a 'travelettes' Google search would bring…
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Hyphen character encoded as “%2D” with IIS6

A customer has set up a website on a server IIS6. In older versions of Firefox, they have a problem with a URL containing a hyphen character. When they request http://www.example.es/mas-info they get a 301 redirect…
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Googlebot requesting pages of 1 site on another site

Problem: Using Prerender.io to index/store pages of one site, I keep getting path requests that only exist on my old site Example: on Prerender I'll see that Googlebot requested http://www.new-site.com/old/site/path I have an old website…
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htaccess, errordocument and joomla rewrite

I need to setup a 404 error handling in my .htaccess, besides handling some 301 redirects for the links of an old website. The new site is made with Joomla, the old site was written in asp. Sef urls and url rewrite are enabled in joomla. I need…
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Get google to stop crawling old pages

Ok, so I have a bit of an odd problem. Our site is crawled by google a LOT. There are a few reasons for this, that aren't really easy to change. One of which being you can access localized versions of our site via ita.example.com (italian) and…
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Prevent users to access to website using port 8080 (apache) when using Varnish (on port 80)

My configuration is very simple : To avoid duplicate content, I want to prevent user to go on my website by hitting directly apache (which is running on port 8080). I have setup a Varnish server listening on port 80, so I want to use only this to…
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How to deal with downtime of web server without losing SEO ranking?

I am having a website which I'm planning to keep in maintenance mode for about 2 days without losing SEO ranking. According to Google blog post, we can do this by having a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable with Retry-After header. I have used the…
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set all apache sites offline with temporary static cached original pages

I would like to set all virtualhosts on my server down for maintenance for some time. The temporary page should contain something like sorry, the page www.xxx.com is down for maintenance. you can see the cached version here: Then the trick:…
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Apache2 - rewrite a bunch of specified pathname URLs to one URL

I need to rewrite a bunch of urls (about 100 or so) for SEO purposes, and there may be more being added in the future (probably another 50-100 later on). I need a flexible way of doing this and so far, the only way I can think of is to edit the…
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how to land www.example.com/subfolder on /index.asp not /index.html

In attempt to answer my question I did: read Miscrosoft "using virtual directories" read over a dozen + posts on stackoverflow / codingforum / dmxzone without a clear answer for my reading I searched terms: "virtual folder" , subfolder…
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